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The weekend weather

NASATitan and Tethys are shown transiting Saturn in this 1995 image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Four of Saturn's moons can be seen transiting the ringed planet on Tuesday --- Titan, Mimas, Dione and Enceladus (sorry, Tethys fans).

When the cold wind blows it will really turn your head around, as somebody once said (James Taylor). If you were out after dark last night you know what we mean. That's what strong cold air advection can do.

Yet, if you were out when it was still light, particularly earlier in the day yesterday, you were likely enjoying the warm sunshine. That's the effect that the ever-warming February sun can have. While we didn't necessarily see a warming trend of any sorts this week, you have may noticed the sun having a little more oomph as we're a couple of months removed now from the shortest days of the year. Even the angle of the sunshine looks a little fuller. Spring --- it's coming.

Just not this weekend. Today will be a cold one, with a high temperature of only 36, six degrees below normal. Winds will continue to be active. They were so active last night, in fact, that southern Connecticut picked up from two to four inches of snow from streamers off the Great Lakes.

Speaking of snow, we've got a chance of it for Saturday night, after 8 p.m., courtesy of an Alberta Clipper that should dump more snow well to our west (Pennsylvania and upstate New York). The likelihood stands at only 50 percent, so don't change your plans; whatever does fall will be light.

Otherwise, we're looking at a high temp of around 41 for both Saturday and Sunday, with more clouds than sun throughout the weekend.

Meanwhile, we noted with alarm that the house we like to escape to in Newfoundland every year, on the Bonavista peninsula, has just received 41 centimeters of snow in an awesome blizzard. 41 centimeters! We did the conversion and found that to be only 16 inches. Silly metric system, always making things out to be worse than they are.

Yesterday's extreme temperatures in the contiguous United States --- High: 98 at Hanksville, Utah; Low: -27 at International Falls, Minn.